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  • From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Re: dosemu
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:56:40 +0000

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:38:05PM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Day Brown wrote:
>
> > When you do run dosemu, will it let you have the 50x80 screen? I see
> > that you havta be root to change the terminal font in Linux.
> >
> I think various settings like that are possible in the config file -
> dosemu.conf, IIRC. Since I've made those remarks about dosemu and gotten
> some feedback, I've actually managed to try it out. It's much simpler to
> set up than I had thought. However, it seems to be really still in a sort
> of beta state (my version is 0.99 something, btw). I had been meaning to
> ask onlist if anyone had managed to do anything useful with it: I suppose

I heard the latest version allow you to get online.

> it could just take a bit more fiddling with settings to get things right
> so that it functions more normally. Chris' remarks about it performing
> poorly on older hardware sort of added to my suspicions about its
> usefulness - though he seemed to be talking more about system performance
> levels than about the software's operation. But I am leaning toward the
> view that dosemu may not be especially useful and might be a bit of a
> disappointment to a DOS user who expects something approaching full DOS
> workability under dosemu. That said, has anyone onlist managed to use
> dosemu productively? Is it just sort of a toy, or can it really offer a
> DOS user something useful and useable on a Linux system? I did see

I use it to run lxpic, a dos picture viewer, that is very small so very
fast. But it takes sometimes to get to the dos prompt.

> in the documentation that it can use a real DOS partition: does it
> maybe work better this way? I didn't try it that way, but rather the
> other way (not sure how to call it: under "full emulation"?). Maybe Bochs

I have tried both way. I think MSDOS will run faster compared to DRDOS.
FREEDOS the slowest.

> could offer something more to the DOS user - though he'd have to have
> something on the high end of survpc equipment to run it, and it would have
> to be run under Xwindows (as I understand it). Then again, maybe dual
> booting really is the answer for survpc'ers who still want to do useful
> things with DOS.
>
> James
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